How a watertech company cleaned up one of SA’s most polluted dam – Jurgens van Loggenberg, Blue Green Technologies

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An Israeli watertech company, Blue Green Technologies, cleaned up the Setumo Dam in the North West Province on the Molopo River of the contaminated toxic algae blooms making its water unsafe to drink. It was basically a dead aquatic zone. The South African Director of Blue Green Technologies, Jurgens van Loggerenberg, told BizNews how the company’s technology achieved this, how they saved a canoe race on the Roodeplaat Dam, the story about a fisherman who covered himself in Vaseline to protect himself from the toxic algae and the link to elephants dying in Botswana. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
4 Nov 2021 11AM English South Africa Investing · Business News

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